High-water mark
499.3028
career-best overall
138.7% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 499.3028 at Pigs & Peaches BBQ Festival — 138.7% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2023-08-18
SMOKING AND JOKING BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1514
peak 1514 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2022-11-18
latest 2023-08-18
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 26%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
67%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 170.56 · weakest Chicken (161.09)
Road miles
30
mi across 3 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$19K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
495.91 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (1 found in this team's record)
Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The nearest teams in the power rankings, with a different reason on each card — six teams on one rating are rarely on it for the same reason. Rating decides who makes the list; where teams tie on it, the ones this team has actually cooked against come first, then teams at a similar point in their own career. KCBS doesn’t publish where a team is from, so nothing here is inferred from geography.
SMOKING AND JOKING BBQ has 2 rated contests — short of the five it takes to earn a power ranking — so this rating has barely moved off the 1500 every team starts on and 107 rated teams sit within a point of it. Read the list as the nearest company at a number nobody here has moved far from, not as a verdict on who this team belongs with.
#2688 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1513
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2681 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1514
No shared contest yet.
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-head#2692 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 14%
- Peak
- 1513
No shared contest yet.
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 7 contests, alongside a 14% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-head#2672 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1514
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2020, 3 years before SMOKING AND JOKING BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2698 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1513
No shared contest yet.
Level with SMOKING AND JOKING BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2680 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1514
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 6 years before SMOKING AND JOKING BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.6456 | 160.5372 | 161.09 | top 38% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 169.1544 | 162.2744 | 165.89 | top 34% |
| Pork | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 171.4056 | 169.7144 | 170.56 | top 15% |
| Brisket | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
“Calls” = top-10 category finishes (getting called to the stage). Scores here are the final weighted totals KCBS publishes; per-criterion appearance/taste/tenderness marks aren’t in the public results feed.
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 30% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 23% |
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.7 yrs
2022-11-18 → 2023-08-18
Busiest season
2022
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
GA
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
3 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 170.56 · weakest Chicken (161.09)
Walk rate
67%
a top-10 call in 2 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
33%
1 of 3 contests
Backyard average
495.91
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
96
78–43 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
30
3 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$19,000
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1514
peak 1514 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2022
- First tracked contest Atlanta BBQ Store Classic (One Meat Ribs)
- First call Atlanta BBQ Store Classic
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score492.5260 Atlanta BBQ Store Classic
- 2023
- First overall top-10 Pigs & Peaches BBQ Festival
- Career-best overall score499.3028 Pigs & Peaches BBQ Festival
- Career-best single call (Pork)171.4056 Pigs & Peaches BBQ Festival
- Most recent contest Pigs & Peaches BBQ Festival
Category scores over time
Overall finish over time (top-% of field, lower is better)
Where they finish (overall)
Best vs average (by meat)
How entries end (by meat)
Season by season
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 30% | 138.7% | 138.7% |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 23% | 136.8% | 136.8% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-18 | Pigs & Peaches BBQ Festival 🏅 Kennesaw, GA | 8 / 27 (499.3028) | 12 (161.6456) | 10 (166.2516) | 5 (171.4056) | — |
| 2022-11-18 | Atlanta BBQ Store Classic 🏅 Cumming, GA | 13 / 57 (492.5260) | 18 (160.5372) | 10 (162.2744) | 7 (169.7144) | — |
| 2022-11-17 | Atlanta BBQ Store Classic (One Meat Ribs) Cumming, GA | — | — | 16 (169.1544) | — | — |
Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)
Team of the Year standings (rank per category by season — year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 ↗ | Backyard | — | #219 (186 pts) | #189 (236 pts) | — | — |